delay shutdown until HD writes files?

[hd-shutdown]

What patch etc. do I need so that XP-pro sp1 will delay
shutdown until the drive completely writes everything.

I've noticed many times that during shutdown, there's a
long pause by XP, then a lot of frantic disk head movement
and then the drives shut down the instant that's down, or
perhaps even before it's down.

And occasionally when I boot up later, it says it didn't
shutdown properly and checks my drive. Proof that XP
isn't waiting for the drive to flush its cache.

I know W98, W98se and Wme used to need a patch to delay
shutdown until XP's cache & and hard drive cache was
flushed.

XP shouldn't need that.

But apparently it does.

Is there a patch? Is there a registry entry I can modify
to increase the shutdown flush delay?

Is there any way I can manually force everything to flush
before I shutdown XP?

 

[Kelly]

Hi,

See if this helps:

This edit automatically ends tasks and timeouts that prevent programs from
shutting down and clears the Paging File on Exit.

Auto End Tasks to Enable a Proper Shutdown (Line 76)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm